Bhagavad Gita 8.15
mām upetya punar janma duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam
nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ
Having attained me, the supreme destination,
The great souls with a firm determination,
Return not for another lifetime of illusion,
To this mortal world of trial and tribulation.
My dear Lord, help me realize the true nature of this world as a place of mortality and misery. If I deny this truth, I will be battered by its misery and shattered by its mortality. Let me not be blinded to their inevitability by the world’s temptations and distractions. Even if my present life is comfortable and enjoyable, distress and devastation are still round the corner. It is not a matter of if, but of when.
Once I have accepted and assimilated this unpalatable but undeniable truth about the world’s nature, O benevolent Lord, let my thoughts not stay stuck there. Let me instead redirect my focus toward the greater, grander reality of your inexhaustible mercy.
You shower that mercy, O infallible Lord, to help me not just leave this world and reach you but also to live in this world and realize you here. All I need to do is transform my driving desires from wanting to enjoy this world to striving to serve you within it. Sheltered and strengthened by that divine purpose, you will empower me to tolerate and eventually transcend the world’s distresses. Thus I can march toward you—steadily, smoothly, swiftly.
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08.15 After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogīs in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.
merciful God mitigate the miseries